‘sharq-zada’: Struck by the East. Rumi translator & Sufi teacher. My Rumi circle + Persian dinner in Manhattan: persianpoetics.com/courses/n…

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This is why we cannot have a civil society; we don't know how to behave civilly.
I genuinely dont understand why Iranian pro-monarchists and Persian supremacists act like rabid dogs the second you say something they don’t like. They have no ability to regulate their emotions or simply just disagree calmly
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Has he ever tried not being an insufferable loser It's a normal Arabic greeting
never seen anyone gets mad because someone else was nice to them
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Italians were having mafia wars, people were dying by the dozens in Brooklyn, Queens, and Lower Manhattan; now, Italian-Americans are a meme.
I think we've seen this sort of thing before in America... Lord knows there was as much anxiety about the tribalism of Italians when they first came. Was almost a kind of racial apocalypse for some of our native stock. But you know, the descendants of Italian mobsters are now retired cops on Staten Island or whatever. America has a way of defusing ethnic internecine conflict over time; once it's imported from the old country, it takes a couple generations and it's mostly over. Perhaps the same will happen with the Somalis, it's hard to say whether it will.
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Tradition is invented and modern
No one had ever eaten a "baguette" or a "croissant" in the year 1900. Like most traditional foods, both were invented in the 20th century.
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We are ruled by Walmart people
Working through the weekend with President Donald J. Trump. It’s always an honor to be in the Oval Office— I never take this opportunity to serve Oklahoma for granted. 🇺🇸
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How can I order the ethnic winter blanket online
Hilarious how delusional and out of touch Iranians are on all fronts, whether it's comparing Zohran to Khumayni or thinking I am a Muslim supremacist Muslim brotherhood.
this delusional mf with his "Islam is superior fuck the rest" agenda alongside his "muslim brotherhood" ideology is the epitome of the diaspora’s stupidity and constant battle for relevance in an all white/WASP society
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May you enjoy the class! Join us live this weekend for the final sessions.
Nastaliq has been annoooyingly difficult from time to time. @sharghzadeh, it's time to fix it. 🙏
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This is a comment under a cat video
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"NYC is full!" Lower Manhattan is full of empty lots and surface parking
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اللهم اشف كل المجانین
وقتی که میگم ایران درست بشو نیست منظورم همینه
"The mafia wouldn't have allowed a soft-on-crime mayor; instead, they would have advocated for Sliwa, who they hated so much that they shot him."
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Zoroastrianism is Hindu coded. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Zoroastrians in Iran, 1994 🇮🇷 Iran is home to the Zoroastrian religion, which emerged in the 7th to 6th centuries B.C. and was the main religion until the Arab conquest of Iran. In the 1930s the Shiite clergy declared in a special fatwa that Zoroastrians were under the protection of Islam. Today the number of Zoroastrians in Iran is about 25,000.
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